Monthly Archives: January 2014

Tweet Get a load of this old timey scene on San Francisco’s Market Street, shot on April 14, 1906, just four days before the earthquake and fire that destroyed about 80% of the city. One thing that immediately stands out is that car drivers at the time were straight up…

Tweet You know, there are days when Google makes me curse loud enough to be heard outside my sound proofed condo on the street 26 stories below. And then there are days when I’m rendered (near) speechless by the crazy technical hijinks they pull off. Using what I can only…

Tweet Lots of funny things have endured or been revived in Italy. The Palio comes to mind. Also, galloping clowns being elected prime minister. But Calcio Storico (“Historic Football”) is on a completely different level of batshit crazy. One could argue that many popular sports are little more than glorified…

Tweet This is Grade A travel/history/urban geek porn right here. Simon Smith got his hands on cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene’s restored color film footage from his UK tour in the 1920s, notably swinging past London’s top sites, and set to work reshooting identical scenes in 2013 using “modern equivalents of his…

Tweet I’m sure some bright and creative individual will find a productive use for this European Word Translator, which renders translations of one- and two-word phrases onto a map, that isn’t limited to speed-learning a bunch of naughty words. But for the rest of us, it’s a few minutes of…

Tweet You probably don’t wanna watch this if you even have a tiny fear of flying. Ferdinand Puentes happened to be videoing his small plane’s Honolulu flight take-off with his GoPro camera, so the camera was handy when the engine failed two minutes into the flight and the plane started…

Tweet [Don’t watch the video above if you find piles of bat corpses upsetting.] Leave it to Australia to make the Arctic Vortex seem like a pleasant alternative. It’s been literally raining bat carcasses this week in southeast Queensland, near the city of Brisbane, Australia. (Of course it’s Australia.) Officials…

Tweet I’ve been to Norway eight times (Hello, my name is Leif!), but only once in winter which, I won’t sugarcoat it, kinda sucked. Norway is indisputably at its best in summer, all sunny and postcard photo opportunities no matter where you point a camera, though if you wanna…

Tweet Someone, probably an vengeful orphan, decided to ruin it for the rest of us and break down the popular travel countries where people are most likely to be kidnapped. Thanks a lot asswipe! Why the hell would you put something like this out there for anyone’s mom to easily…

Tweet UFO sightings by manure vapor-stoned farmers in Iowa are so 1980s. Either the UFOs have gotten really sloppy or far more blasé about concealing themselves, because apparently now they’re buzzing passenger aircraft in broad daylight over London. The recently released, detail-starved report of the July incident claims the pilot…